Good evening. I'm John Yang. Violence spread in the Middle East today as a

Jordanian gunman killed three Israelis at a sensitive crossing between the

West Bank and Jordan. It was at the Allenby Bridge which spans the Jordan River and is the main route for West Bank Palestinians to travel abroad.

Israeli officials said the gunman approached from the Jordanian side, got out of a truck and opened fire at Israeli security guards who killed him at a

shootout. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack was due to the

war in Gaza. It's a hard day. A despicable terrorist murdered three of our citizens in cold blood at the

Allen B bridge. On behalf of the government, I send my condolences to the families of the

murder. And in Gaza and an Israeli airstrike killed five people, including two children,

and a senior official in the Civil Emergency Service, which handles Gaza's first responder

operations.

The mother of the 14-year-old accused of killing four people last week at that Georgia high school

has told family members that she called the school the morning of the shooting to warn

of an extreme emergency.

The teen's aunt said her sister related in text messages that she told a school

counselor her son was having homicidal and suicidal thoughts.

The Washington Post reports a call log from the having homicidal and suicidal thoughts.

The Washington Post reports a call log

from the family's phone plan

shows a call to the school about a half hour

before the shooting began.

Ukraine and Russia are trading blame for attacks that injured civilians in two border regions.

In Russia, air attacks from Ukraine injured two people in Belgrade, and in the northeastern Ukrainian

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